Quotes about Success

Quotes about Success

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Last Updated: Friday May 16, 2008

Here are some of my favorite quotes. Many of these are from A Daily Dose of the American Dream. I collected these "success quotes" over a number of years. If you have a favorite success quote you'd like to suggest, please send me your favorite quotes.

What good are quotes? A good quote captures a bit of wisdom in a few words. They are almost like a poem -- when a quote is worth its salt -- it makes you think, it inspires, it challenges. Pick out a few quotes that say something to you -- write them down, put them on your bulletin board, memorize them.

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A. A. M. "Success depends on correct timing."

A. A. M. "Success is sweat plus effort."

A. A. M. "Simplicity is the badge of genius. Simplicity is the badge of distinction."

A. A. M. "The prime objective of a company going into business is to make a profit. Ask yourself if everything you do will enhance the profit of the company. This is the prime rule of business."

A. A. M. "Put your knowledge to practical experience and reap the harvest."

A. A. M. "Expect problems and meet them as a friend."

A. A. M. "It isn't what you invent but what you do with what you invent that makes for financial success."

A. A. M. "No man is great in and of himself. He must touch the lives of other great men who will inspire him lift him push him forward and give him confidence."

A. C. Elliott "Every real accomplishment first begins as a dream."

A. C. Elliott "If you want to attract attention make an every day chore exciting and fun."

A. P. Gouthey "Everyone has handicaps. Don't give in to your handicaps."

A. P. Gouthey "He helps others most who shows them how to help themselves."

Abraham Lincoln "Public opinion in this country is everything."

Abraham Lincoln "That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."

Abraham Lincoln "I do the very best I know how the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

Abraham Lincoln "I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions without selfishness or malice and by the help of God I shall continue to do so."

Abraham Lincoln "I will study and get ready and perhaps my chance will come."

Adm. HymanG. Rickover "Man's distinction is his determination to think for himself."

Adm.Hyman G. Rickover "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience."

Alan Elliott "The person who works diligently toward a dream and keeps his focus on the goal will wake up some fine morning and realize that he has achieved what he has dreamed."

Aldous Huxley "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Alexander Hamilton "A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state."

Alexd Arbeloff "Concentrate your resources to win. You have a chance to lose because you might pick the wrong objective. On the other hand if you don't concentrate it's a sure loss."

Alfred P.Sloan "Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it."

American Proverb "Success is a ladder than cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets."

Anonymous "When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise."

Arnold Bennett "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top."

Author Unknown "True creativeness is finding new possibilities in old situations."

Belgian Proverb "It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out."

Benjamin Franklin "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

Bill Murto "Happiness is in your mind and how you think about yourself and what you're doing."

Bill Shaw, president of Grandy's "Our goal is to please the customer and everything we do is designed for that purpose."

Billy Rose "This is the age of the specialist. Charm and good manners are worth up to $30 a week. After that the pay- off is in direct ratio to the amount of specialized know- how in a fellow's head."

Bob Ripley "A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes."

Booker T. Washington "You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him."

Brillat-Savarin "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are."

Bulwer-Lytton "Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

Bulwer-Lytton "In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion."

Byron in The Two Foscari "When we think we lead we most are led."

C. W. Post "An industrial family should be united in purpose as well governed contented and peaceful and the members as courteous to one another as a domestic family."

Calvin Coolidge "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Carlyle "Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at the distance, but to do what is clearly at hand."

Cato "It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears."

Cervantes "Diligence is the matter of good fortune."

Chamfort "Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door."

Charles Gow "Observation is more than seeing; it is knowing what you see and comprehending its significance."

Charles Kettering "The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

Charles Spahr "A business may prosper temporarily because of fortuitous circumstances but in the long run an enterprise needs a management team that can effectively respond to change in the environment in which it operates."

Chesterfield "I recommend that you take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves."

Classic Crossword Puzzles "A short cut is often the quickest way to some place you weren't going."

Claude Pepper "Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop peddling."

Clinton Davidson "If you want to become the greatest in your field no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else."

Colton "The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."

Councillor "We should seek the atmosphere and the surroundings which call forth the best that is in us."

Dagobert Runes "Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think."

Dale Carnegie "Any fool can criticize condemn and complain - and most fools do."

Dale Carnegie "When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid."

Daniel Webster "If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible our country will go on prospering."

David D. Hewitt "To maintain maximum attention it's hard to beat a good big mistake."

David Laird "People can do but don't do without motives to keep going."

David Lloyd George "Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated."

Disraeli "There are three kinds of lies: lies damn lies and statistics."

Donald A. Adams "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity."

Dr. Beranger "To excel is to live."

Dr. Harvey Cushing "A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness."

Dr. Paul Parker "People are the portals through which men pass into power and leadership."

Dr. Paul Parker "The removal of human friction is 90 percent of the problem of handling people."

Dr. Paul Parker "A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured."

Dr. Paul Parker "Assume in your imagination as already yours the goal you aspire to have."

E. F. Girard "Determination and gumption will carry a man far."

E. F. Girard "There are efforts and there are results. And it is the strength of the effort that usually determines the size of the result."

E. S. March "Look back often and see what made our country the great nation it is today."

Edgar A. Guest "He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done. and he did it."

Edward Eggleston "Persistent people begin their success when others end in failure."

Edward Kramer "There are so many wonderful things in your every day experience lucrative opportunities glorious occasions that do not exist for you because you do not have the vision for discerning them."

Edwin Markham "We have committed the Golden Rule to memory now let us commit it to life."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox "'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal and not the storms of life."

Emerson "Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Emerson "Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm."

Emerson "A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

English Proverb "Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

Eric Sevareid "To a child this world is brand-new and gift-wrapped; Disney tried to keep it that way for adults . . ."

Estee Lauder "If you put the product into the customer's hands it will speak for itself if it's something of quality."

F. D. Roosevelt "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Fenelon "You can tell how big a man is by observing how much it takes to discourage him."

Flora Whittemore "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

Frances Lewis "The company is for people, people are not for the company. I always feel the company is for our employees customers and stockholders they don't exist for the company."

Francis Bacon "Fortitude and the power of fixing attention are the two marks of a great mind."

Fredrick Langbridge "Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud the other the stars."

from "[Tiffany's] calms me down right away the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there."

From an Alka-Seltzer ad "Try it you'll like it!"

From Good Taste Waste "Congratulations. Your Designer Trash Bags show everyone you are a person of style and refinement."

G. B. Shaw "Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius."

G. H. Lorimer "Back of every noble life there are principles which have fashioned it."

General George S. Patton "If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking."

General George S. Patton "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do."

Genesis 1:31 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day."

George S. Parker "Our pens will write in any language."

George S. Patton "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

George W. Carver "When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world."

German saying "He who has not tasted bitter does not know what sweet is."

Glenn Frank "The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation."

Goethe "To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability."

Goethe "Every man is a builder of a temple called his body."

Goethe "Man seeks his inward unity but his real progress on the path depends on his capacity to refrain from distorting reality in accordance with his desires."

Goethe "The Man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. What you can do or think you can begin it."

Grenville Kleiser "The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things."

Grenville Kleiser "Let your intentions be good embodied in good thoughts cheerful words and unselfish deeds and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which you can work and play and serve."

Grenville Kleiser "Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies."

GustaveLe Bon "The conditions of success in life are the possession of judgment experience initiative and character."

H. Ross Perot "The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed."

H. W. Austin "Genius -- that power which dazzles humans is oft but perseverance in disguise."

H. W. Beecher "A reputation for good judgment for fair dealing for truth and for rectitude is itself a fortune."

Harry Emerson Fosdick "Great living starts with a picture held in your imagination of what you would like to do or be."

Harry S. Truman "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want to do and then advise them to do it."

Hayes "Things do not happen in this world they are brought about."

Helen Keller "When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another."

Helen Keller "We can do anything we want to do if we stick with it long enough."

Helen Keller "Many persons have a wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Helmut Schmidt "Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps."

Henry Adams "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry J. Kaiser "Love people and serve them."

Henry J. Kaiser "Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you."